135 an hundred for twenty a five-fold return on your loan

140 Mistress Sheriff Some editions correct Q1’s Mistress Sheriff to ‘Master Sheriff’; but the reference to ‘worship’ suggests the line might be delivered in mock deference to Margery, who is flaunting her new status - and French hood.

146 crotchets a) notes of music; b) entertainments involving music and dance morris a dance (derived from ‘moorish’) for festive occasions

147 gentle gentlemen

0 s.d. SYBIL and other Servants (Q3; Sibill in a French hood, and other seruants Q1) Rose promises Sybil many fashionable clothing accessories in Scene 2, but a French hood is not among them - so Q3’s different stage direction is a plausible correction.

12 scarlet gown worn by the Lord Mayor and aldermen on ceremonial occasions

15 flip-flap probably an allusion to the flaps of Margery’s French hood gulleries deceptions; also gaudy clothes

20-1 A pound . . . debt proverbial (Tilley, P518); dram is a unit of weight, one eighth of an ounce (O.E.D. sb. 2).

22 sack and sugar sweet wine with more sugar added; conventionally regarded as the drink of choice for elderly people.

29 marks a mark was worth two-thirds of a pound

31 still continually

34 cockney spoilt or pampered child

35 coxcomb fool

39 wash perhaps a mild expletive, like ‘pshaw’. As a noun, used as a synonym for ‘waste water discharged after use in washing’ and ‘stale urine’ (O.E.D. n. III.9, 10); as an adjective, used in the sense of ‘washy, weak, tender’ (O.E.D. a.).

39-40 pishery-pashery gaudy clothes (see 1.123-4)

41 mouse common term of endearment

42 Gentleman Grocer member of the Grocers’ Company

45 pack be kicked out

46 s.d. tabor and pipe small drum and pipe

50 s.d. Enter . . . morris This is an appropriately festive moment for the first three-man’s song; singing it here would also give Rose more time to scrutinize, and then recognize, Lacy. See note on the First Three-Man’s Song, p. 6.

58 represent’st resemble

60 Ick . . . frister ‘I thank you, good maid’

61 want lack

62 properest most handsome

63 Here . . . he i.e. there be some here who are as proper as he is; Firk’s remark typically contains a bawdy innuendo.

67 Stratford Bow Stratford-le-Bow, a small village just outside of London where one could buy cakes and drinks.

69 tickle it live it up

s.d. All [the Shoemakers] go dancing out Some editors place the first three-man’s song immediately before this direction.

78 policies crafty schemes

0 s.d. muffled a common mode of disguise in the drama of the time; but Hammon may wrap his face also against the cold, to which he refers at line 17.

5-6 my poor . . . famish a proverbial statement of unrequited love, though often associated with self-love. In the 35th Sonnet of Amoretti, Spenser compares his gaze to that of ‘Narcissus vaine / whose eyes him staru’d: so plenty makes me poor’ (8:209).

7 I still love one I am always in love